Deposit return scheme (recycling) - Part 2

The shops should do a better job of cleaning up the pool of soup, often they create it. So often my feet have stuck to the floor standing in front of the DRS machine. And it walks around with you then for a while.

Also, a few times I've used outdoor DRS machines, and the amount of wasps swarming around at this time of year is annoying.

You'd miss the auto save draft with the Cloudflares etc etc

Need to think to hit the save draft button these days.

😔 Let's try this again. There's an Aldi near me, it has only one DRS machine and it spends more time out of order than actually working. This was it a few days ago.

This was it yesterday(Sunday).

This was it this afternoon(Monday), which I told a staff member about and was an easy fix.

So often I see bags of empties at the machine or by entrance/exit. People frustrated and just dump them. I happened upon the "reject items only" bin being emptied today. It filled a shopping trolley and more of people putting their empties in there when the machine isn't working.

And this has to be a regular occurrence. I seen the staff member then putting them into the DRS machine as I was leaving. It's not the first time I've seen it happening. I'd say the staff are only too delighted to see the machines "out of order". I don't know what arrangement they have on divvying up their proceeds. It reminds me of Groundskeeper Willie on The Simpsons with his retirement grease.

There was an elderly man with both hands full of large bags of empties on Sunday. I was talking to him, he was saying he looked like he had raided Electric Picnic, he had so much. He had to go back out to the car as the machine was broken, leave the bags there and come back in to do his shopping. I was telling him it wasn't as bad for me as I only had a few empties(he offered to take them for me, but then I'd lose out on this scam) and where the nearest other options were, but then of course his voucher would have to be used in that specific branded retailer. On his way out, I seen a bag of empties and was saying someone must have left them there out of frustration.

When I was leaving a few minutes later, the bag was gone. I don't know if that old man came back and took them or if a staff member got to them instead. The thought has crossed my mind to take these bags home myself, I'm sure that's what some people do when they see them left behind.

Also today, I had to wait several minutes as a guy ahead of me had a shopping trolley full of empties and was going to town on the machine. I managed to sneak a shot of the screen, it's a little blurry.

And that wasn't even the final count. Where the eff are you getting 250+ items? Maybe he had a house party.

That's a bit of a nightmare all right.

Is there another shop in the area with an RVM ?

If Aldi can't keep their one working it might be better to go elsewhere.

You can cash the voucher and do your shopping wherever you prefer.

As for the guy with 250 containers, he could be working somewhere that lots of containers get left behind.

Maybe a school or works canteen.

Thats a feature, not a bug! It prevents small children from running around.

Well I suppose this is better than irrelevant links + copy and paste dumps. Or bringing up soda water prices again. Points for effort. Your delivery could do with some work though.

Recycling bin and general waste bin now go out about once a month, if that, rarely even close to full. Given my provider has been acting the Michael about collecting compost recently, I'm thinking it's probably time to cancel the service altogether. Must be a fairly common occurrence around the country so charges will only go one way for those who still need their wheelie bins.

Oh and I've had no issues with the machines since I last posted, lest someone comes along to imply I'm trying to find out of order machines or some such nonsense.

Its some craic.

Would be interesting to see some monthly stats for total cans and plastic bottles sold over the last few years. At least then we could point to that as some kind of win because if it hasnt reduced this scheme is increasing carbon footprint due to the many reasons already discussed here.

....there are many videos on YouTube explaining the process.....

If you have a 2 litre plastic bottle, and it's crushed a bit, then it's wider than the outer "neck" of the machine.

However it's easy force this through the neck of the machine, the barcode gets read ok but at the next "neck" it gets stuck.

You can't force it along this time as it's too far in so the machine goes into lockdown faster than Tony Holohan can implement one.

Just checked, can't see a single video from ReScam showing how they separate and recycle what is going into RVMs. But you seem to know they're there, so an aul link would be great. I don't want to see how other companies do it, I want to see how ReScam do it.

Those 2 litre plastic bottles are quite pliable.

They can be manipulated back into shape.

You can also blow into them and they will pop out.

Don't do it with ditch finds though 😊

Their target is 90%. If they wanted everybody's money back, they wouldn't have screwed over people who get deliveries, those with mobility issues accessing RVMs with slots set too high for wheelchair users, people buying in ports or airports.

Your binmen are threatening an increase in charge because your friendly Return operators are using the revenue from selling on recyclables to fund their operation. That was previously offsetting the code of kerbside bin collections.

And spare us any fantasy legalese nonsense about you not having a contract with your friendly binmen specifying that.
That isn't worth the paper it isn't written on.

We're going over old ground yet again.

I've previously acknowledged the issues you mention, discussed them and even came up with a few possible solutions.

The binmen are doing exactly as I said in the post you replied to.

Jaysus 😂. Next time you return a container throw yourself in after it.